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Keep the Pressure On! (DOD Appropriations) - UPDATE
Earlier this week, Campaign for Liberty asked our members to take action on the Department of Defense appropriations bill by calling their representative and demanding they urge the House Rules Committee to bring the bill to the floor under an [...]
Action Alert: House DOD Appropriations Bill
The House may take up the Department of Defense Appropriations Bill later this week, and C4L Members should take action TODAY to urge an open amendment process. If your representative sits on the rules committee, they especially need to hear from [...]
Inept Government? No Surprises There.
By Luke Marrazzo The federal government is a corrupt, bureaucratic mess. This is an indisputable fact. Just from what makes the news, we know the federal government will be incapable of verifying whether someone qualifies for the “health [...]
Let Market Forces Solve Organ Transplant Crisis
Here is Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul's latest Texas Straight Talk on why a free-market system is the only effective and compassionate way to manage organ donations: Ten-year old cystic fibrosis patient Sarah Murnaghan captured the [...]
Internet Sales Taxes Will Harm Small Business
Freshman Representative Ron DeSantis (R-FL-6) is a vocal opponent of the so-called "Marketplace Fairness Act," or as Campaign for Liberty calls it, the National Internet Tax Mandate. In addition to signing Rep. Thomas Massie's (R-KY-4) letter [...]
Ron Paul Statement on Bernanke Hearing
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia – Ron Paul, Campaign for Liberty Chairman, and former Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Monetary Policy, issued the following statement today regarding Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s [...]
Latest GOP Sell Out
Last Thursday, the House GOP passed an "agriculture only" version of the Farm Bill that did not contain the provisions reauthorizing the food stamp programs that were in the version of the Farm Bill that failed to pass the House in [...]
Preserve the Filibuster
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia - Campaign for Liberty today called on the Senate to reject Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s calls to weaken the Senate Filibuster to rush approval on presidential nominations: “Senate rules are specifically [...]